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List of Tables and Figures ix
Acknowledgments xi
Part I Groupthink and the Quality of the Foreign-Policy Decision-Making Process
1 Introduction 5
2 The Group and the Individual in Foreign-Policy Decision Making 18
3 The Decision-Making Model: The Interplay of Group Processes and Psychological Characteristics 53
Part II Case Studies in American Foreign-Policy Decision Making
4 Case Studies in Low-Quality Decision Making 81
The Garter Administration and the Shah 82
Reagan Funding the Contras, 1981 92
Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative 103
George W. Bush and the 2002 Steel Tariffs 113
5 Case Studies in High-Quality Decision Making 123
The Carter Administration and the Ogaden Crisis 123
The Reagan Administration and Easing Ferdinand Marcos out of Power 132
The Clinton Administration and South Asia: Nuclear Capabilities and Another War Over Kashmir 143
Part III Statistical Analyses
6 The Effect of Groupthink Versus High-Quality Decision Making on Outcomes 157
7 Individual-Level Factors Affecting the Quality of Decision Making 188
Part IV Conclusions
8 The 2003 War in Iraq: How Flawed Decision Making Led to Critical Failures 211
9 Groupthink Versus High-Quality Decision Making: Lessons and Prescriptions 237
Appendix A Cases Included in the Analysis 251
Appendix B Operational Definitions of Situational-Context Variables 255
Appendix C Operational Definitions of Group-Structural Variables 257
Appendix D Operational Definitions of Decision-Processing Variables 259
Notes 261
References 265
Index 279
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